clothes-basket love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A large basket for holding or carrying clothes or household linen for washing.

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Examples

  • Not to be behindhand in these essential particulars, we caused two very respectable sacks of sugar-plums (each about three feet high) and a large clothes-basket full of flowers to be conveyed into our hired barouche, with all speed.

    Pictures from Italy 2007

  • William buckets, and George a big clothes-basket, which he and

    Jennie Gerhardt 2004

  • Downstairs in the tesselated corridor, where lilac rapped and beckoned at the windows, the perambulator was in waiting — a big-bellied clothes-basket on wheels.

    Two Tales of Old Strasbourg 2003

  • And Polly rose from her knees before a clothes-basket which she was filling with crockery, and bustled away to fetch the cake she had baked for such an occasion.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • Fuming, she put aside the wicker clothes-basket and stepped out into the night. a hand extended to catch the first drops.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • Fuming, she put aside the wicker clothes-basket and stepped out into the night. a hand extended to catch the first drops.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • We girls had dressed the house with flowers; old Mr. Coolidge sent in a clothes-basket full.

    An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

  • Anne was left alone in the cottage with the baby, who slept in the clothes-basket she had turned into a cradle.

    Women of the Country Gertrude Bone

  • Tucking it in at the feet of the child, she lifted the clothes-basket and carried it upstairs.

    Women of the Country Gertrude Bone

  • It was with fear and trembling that I came forward, and offered to get the clothes-basket and bring in the clothes.

    Walter Harland Or, Memories of the Past

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